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WASHINGTON - At an event centered on one of the darkest times in human history, more than 1,000 Holocaust survivors, World War II veterans and other dignitaries crowded into a tent to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and filled it with the joyous sounds of laughter, some tears and Yiddish. Lots of Yiddish. It was an emotional ceremony, but also celebratory for all that the museum has accomplished over the last two decades. Former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who were at the dedication of the museum in 1993, returned Monday and reiterated the reason for its existence: that such genocide might "never again" occur.

The student-led start-up ZenKars sounds as if it should have emerged from Southern California. After all, its goal is to provide used-car shoppers with a "peaceful buying experience. " But ZenKars is Philadelphia-born and bred, and it won the 2013 Wharton Business Plan Competition last week. ZenKars is an online retailer of used cars that doesn't have a weedy lot filled with cream puffs. According to a YouTube video of its presentation at DreamIt's Demo Day in December, the company connects car buyers directly with commercial sellers that typically shed their fleets via the auction process.

Information About Bats The Pennsylvania Game Commission has materials on bats, bat houses, and the summer count. Go to www.pgc.state.us , click on "wildlife," then click on "wildlife" again, then "Appalachian bats. " In New Jersey , the Department of Environmental Protection covers bats. www.njfishandwildlife.com/ensp/bat.htm Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey has information and sponsors an annual bat count. www.conservewildlifenj.org Bat Conservation International has cool bat facts, bat-house plans, even bat poems.

When floods of data - linking patients to doctors, gadgets, images, and medicines - used to surge through two aging computer centers near Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals' Walnut Street headquarters, senior director Paul S. O'Connor Sr. worried his network could be "one waterpipe-break away" from paralysis. That's why, over the last two years, Jefferson contracted two off-campus computer-server operators to link its network to Verizon, Comcast, and a half-dozen specialty telecom carriers.

SEOUL - After North Korea on Friday rejected formal talks to resolve a standoff at a jointly operated border industrial complex, South Korea said it would call home its remaining workers from the facility, formally severing the last major connection between the two countries. South Korea's decision diminishes the already slim odds of the complex's survival and widens a divide between Seoul and Pyongyang that has grown during weeks of back-and-forth threats. The Kaesong Industrial Complex had stood as the chief symbol of cooperation between the neighbors after opening in 2004 as a capitalist bubble on the northern side of the border where South Korean companies employed cheap North Korean labor.

SEOUL - After North Korea on Friday rejected formal talks to resolve a standoff at a jointly operated border industrial complex, South Korea said it would call home its remaining workers from the facility, formally severing the last major connection between the two countries. South Korea's decision diminishes the already slim odds of the complex's survival and widens a divide between Seoul and Pyongyang that has grown during weeks of back-and-forth threats. The Kaesong Industrial Complex had stood as the chief symbol of cooperation between the neighbors after opening in 2004 as a capitalist bubble on the northern side of the border where South Korean companies employed cheap North Korean labor.

BAGHDAD - Security forces stormed a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on Tuesday, sparking deadly clashes in several towns and sharply intensifying rage at the Shiite-led government. The unrest and a spate of other attacks, mostly targeting Sunni mosques, killed at least 56 people. The violence could mark an ominous turning point in the four-month Sunni protest movement, which is posing a stubborn challenge to Iraq's stability a decade after the toppling of Saddam Hussein. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks on three Sunni mosques, and it was unclear whether there was any connection to the storming of the protest camp.

THE NFL is increasing security for this week's draft at Radio City Music Hall, with everyone subject to screenings, including use of metal detectors and pat-downs, and searches of personal property. Even league officials, players and their families will be subject to such measures. The league said Tuesday that spectators who don't consent to the security requirements will be refused admission. The draft begins Thursday night and has sessions Friday night and Saturday afternoon.

A friend who is raising money for Jeff Bauman - pictured bloody and ashen in a photo that has defined the Boston Marathon bombing - has collected more than $205,000 in two days. The sum grew by the minute Friday as donations arrived from around the world to "Bucks for Bauman!" - set up by the sister of Bauman's best friend. The fund-raising goal was increased from $200,000 to $1 million as money poured in. Bauman, 27, grew up in New England but has extensive family ties to Philadelphia and South Jersey.

Cherry Hill residents worried about development of the bankrupt Woodcrest Country Club site gathered Thursday night at a neighborhood meeting, where the mayor tried to assuage their fears. "You really can't develop the back of your homes, because there's nowhere to develop," said Chuck Cahn, using a laser pointer to circle wetlands on an aerial map of the 155-acre property while addressing about 80 residents in the Woodcrest Elementary School gymnasium. Only part of the course is within the sewer service area, Cahn said, making development expensive.